Another quick week here in P6/5 has gone by. We have had a nice week with loads of things going on. With the P7s at Whitburn Academy, it has been quiet at our end of the school.

Please read our updates below.

• Alfie – this week as the P7s were away to Whitburn Academy, we got PE with Mrs Howard and Mr Tennant. We all really enjoyed these lessons.
• Fraser – in music we continued with the Carnival of the Animals and were listening to The Avery and drew what came to our minds.
• Leah – Miss Gilroy had her weekly groups on Tuesday. Some of us were at this and we were playing a game where we hid a phone and we had to listen carefully to find it. We enjoyed this.
• Brodie – we had a visitor in the school on Thursday and she popped in to see what we were doing on Thursday morning as we were learning about our strengths and self-help skills we might need for camp.
• Danielle – Mrs Boyd came into class on Monday to learn how play Silent Ball with Mrs Gibson teaching.
• Alfie – on Tuesday afternoon most of P6/5 went to play football against St John’s Primary School and Falla Hill Primary School. We tried our best during the games.
• Hannah – we have been looking at what we will be doing for our class assembly and Brogan, Eve and I have started working on a dance to go with a song we will play.
• Callum – with the P7s away, we were asked to show Mrs Clifford around the school on Thursday when she visited Stoneyburn.

Let’s see if next week is just as quick!

Have a good weekend!

P6/5

We are all back to school after our extra long weekend. We have had a short but pretty busy week. Please read on to hear what has been going on.

• Callum – P6s had a Health & Wellbeing session with the P7s and Mrs Gibson on Wednesday. We were playing Silent Ball and the P5s joined us for a quick game.
• Jack – Mrs Rankin’s Craft Club started on Thursday for the P4/5/6/7s. We were making origami bookmarks and some of us made these look like the Cookie Monster.
• Brogan – the PTA held the Valentine’s Disco on Wednesday night. It was a really good night!
• Alfie – we finished off our paintings of a volcano on Thursday. We were using hot colours to reflect the volcano exploding.
• Keris – in maths we were working on percentages and relating these to fractions and decimals.
• Charley – we had our ERIC time on Friday this week instead of Thursday. It’s something quite a lot of us enjoy.
• Eve – we were working on a wall display to show how the whole school feel ‘Included’. It’s looking really good with the other classes work.
• Brogan – Mrs Ewing took our class with P4 to do music. We were listening to a track from the Carnival of Animals and we drew pictures of what we imagined as we listened.

We’re all back to normal with a full week next week.

Have a lovely weekend!

P6/5

Here we are at half term already. The pupils are all excited to have a long weekend and a short week next week.

We have had another busy week of learning in class so please read on to hear what everyone has been up to.

All – we worked on the library and tidied up the non-fiction section and created labels for this. This was a big job but it’s really starting to take shape and look a lot better. We should get our labels put on the shelves next week and finalise our plans for running the library for all classes to be able to start borrowing books.

Alfie – Football match where Stoneyburn played Greenrigg – it was a close match – we lost 5-4.

Charley – we were looking at our imaginative writing and looking at how to improve this.

Hannah – we have started working on creating paintings of volcanoes. We have completed the black painting and will complete these with our hot colours next week.

Katie – we have a long weekend!!

Brogan – we were working with the P4s for Music and we listened to music and drew what we felt from this.

Charley – we did decimals in maths this week and were adding decimal calculations.

Alfie – we did noughts and crosses with Mrs Ewing in French.

We hop everyone has a great long weekend!

P6/5

Another week has passed by as we move into February. We have been looking at Health & Wellbeing this week and have been continuing on with our topic and our class novel, Wonder.

Read on to hear more.

• Callum – this week we created our Worry Woods corner in the classroom. We can write any worries we have in the box and this is checked by the teacher at the end of the day and we can talk about these if we want to.
• Eve – we continued on with reading Wonder which we are all really enjoying. Everyone has created an Auggie spaceman head and we had to write kind things about our classmates on everyone’s helmets.
• Aflie – we created a bucket filler box which we can add to each day and these will be shared with the class.
• Charley – we had a SHANARRI morning on Thursday where each class looked at each indicator. These all represent: Safe, Healthy, Active, Nurtured, Achieving, Respected, Responsible, Included.
• Hannah – Mrs Gibson held an assembly with the whole school looking at friendship and we did some drama relating to these.
• Cory – we started Thursday morning with a feel good factor with the whole school doing the Cha Cha Slide! It woke everyone up and was a happy start to our day.
• Jack – we did imaginative writing this week based on an invisible man who had a suitcase with a person inside – we had to include this somehow in our stories.
• Eve – we had futsal on Wednesday and this week we were practising our passing skills.
• Keris – we had our PVG groups today. The pupil council group are looking at ways to reduce the amount of homework we get.
• Katie – we did our weekly spelling tests as usual.
• Eve – during literacy this week we were looking at using inverted commas and creating sentences using these.
• Charley – we were practising our handwriting this week.

Have a nice weekend.

P6/5

Well, here we are at the end of January already. It has been a quick few weeks and we’ll be into February this coming week!

We had the JRSO Glow disco this morning where we all enjoyed dancing in the dark with glow sticks/torches/clothing. A great way to remind us of keeping safe on these dark mornings and nights.

Read on to hear about our week.

• Brogan – Mrs Malloch came in on Tuesday for our weekly NYCOS session with her. We all enjoyed singing and doing the actions to Long/Short Legged Wife.
• Eve – we continued on with fractions this week and looked at simplifying these. We’re moving onto decimals  and looking at how these link next week.
• Danielle – some of us went along to the joint school ceilidh and performed Ally Bally Bee with the P4s. It was a good night.
• Hannah – the JRSO Pupil Voice Group helped to plan the disco we went to this morning.
• Jack – in French we were learning to count up to 50.
• Alfie – in HWB we were discussing bullying and read about a girl who was being bullied for playing football with the boys. We had good discussions in class on this and what the girl should do.
• Charley – we read more of Wonder this week. We are all really enjoying this book.
• Brodie – it was the first week of the after school Debating Club.
• Hannah – some of the girls attended a netball tournament at Whitburn. We came 4th this time.
• Charley – we worked on our plans for our imaginative writing story which we’ll write next week.
• Jack – we spoke about setting up a Worry Box in the classroom and we need to create designs for this and we’ll vote on the favourite.
• Brogan – we continued on with Earthquakes and Volcano topic. We were researching some famous earthquakes and the impact they had on the areas.
• Alfie – in PE this week we started fitness with circuits. We’ll continue with this for a few weeks to see if our fitness improves during the next few weeks.
• Jack – we were practicing our dribbling skills in Futsal this week.

Please see the pictures below from the Glow Disco.

Well it’s been a nice week with the snow to look out on but not so good for getting everyone to school! We all made it in safely and had a good week. We have all enjoyed getting outside at lunchtimes to play in it while it’s nice snow and not icy/slushy snow.

Just a reminder to everyone that our gym days this term are Tuesdays and Wednesdays so we need to remember our PE kits for both days.

Please read below to hear what we got up to in class:

• Danielle – P5 pupils were continuing this week looking at friendships on Thursday and we had to create a promotional poster displaying 5 qualities we like in our friends.
• Brogan – Mrs Malloch started working with our class this week doing some NYCOS games to help us improve our singing. She will visit us on Tuesday mornings just before lunchtime. It was a good session with her.
• Jack – we continued to look at fractions this week and were looking at a fraction of a number.
• Charley – on Tuesday we looked at poems in Scots and had to work out what they meant. I was looking at one called The Windae Cleaner – it was funny.
• Hannah – with Mrs Loosemore on Wednesday, we had a general knowledge quiz. Brodie & Keris were the winners – well done!
• Cory – we had our usual ERIC (Everyone Reading In Class) smart start on Thursday. I really enjoyed reading the book I had.
• Charley – we started our new topic this week of Earthquakes and Volcanoes. We started by finding out what we know about these and then we all said what we want to learn about these.
• Jack – Futsal is back on again on Wednesdays. Our usual coach couldn’t make it but we got Andrew instead and played games.
• Charley – we did a lesson on how to answer questions this week as we need the practice on making sure our answers are clear and in a well structured sentence.
• Katie – we found out about the Ceilidh next week with Our Lady’s next Wednesday evening.
• Brogan – in music this week we worked in groups tapping our rhythms we had created before and this time we got to select an instrument to use for these.
• Charley – we continued reading our class novel, Wonder. We are all enjoying this.
• Eve – we were summarising in literacy this week. We had to write a summary of our reading for this week.
• Hannah – the P6/7s had their final practice before the ceilidh next week with Our Lady’s. We are all set for our performance.

Have a nice weekend in the snow if it stays!

P6/5

Well it was nice to see everyone after the school holidays and get back into a routine again! We have had a nice, slightly shorter week settling back into work. We started the week working on team work in PE and working together in team games.

Read to below to hear more about our week.

•  Alfie – In maths, we have started looking at fractions.
• Eve – we had Mrs Loosemore for a lesson on problem solving on Thursday morning.
• Jack – we had PE this week and we were looking at using good teamwork within different games.
• Brogan – we also did some solve and shade puzzles with Mrs Loosemore.
• Charley – we were writing this week about something we did during the holidays.
• Callum – the P6/7 were back practicing with Our Lady’s pupils. We were singing the Proclaimers songs Sunshine on Leith and I’m On My Way.
• Keris – we had music with Mrs Ewing.
• Fraser – we did a lesson on emotions this week and looked at sad emotions and we had to think of sometime we felt sad.
• Brogan – Mrs Rankin moved our seats so we are all at different groups.
• Alfie – we were playing a maths game 11 and Out.
• Jack – we did literacy this week and some of us were given new books.
• Callum – we had another listening session with Ms Gilroy on Tuesday.

Please see the pictures below from PE – we worked together in teams to throw and catch a tennis ball all at the same time with different challenges for each throw – we had to try and do 10. We all had to make sure we caught the ball after each challenge or we had to start again from challenge number 1! Then we worked in teams to play a game with beanbags to try and beat the opposing team by getting as close to the yellow beanbag, a bit like bowls. We had to talk tactics before each player threw the next beanbag.

Have a nice weekend! A full week next week!

P6/5

This morning P6/5 have been confused with what happened this week and what happened last week as it has been a busy time these last couple of weeks of term! It has been a very quick term for us all and we have managed to get through a lot of work. A well deserved break is now ahead of us all.

Here is what we did get up to this week:

• Charley – We did some Christmas art this week where we made snowman using paint, crayons and oil pastels. We get to bring them home today!
• Hannah – We had our Christmas party on Thursday which we all really enjoyed, especially the Photo Booth!
• Danielle – We enjoyed our Christmas Lunch on Wednesday. We all sat in the hall together.
• Alfie – We had a Christmas movie in the hall after the Christmas Lunch.
• Hannah – We had the Church Service on Monday morning when each class had to say a verse of the Christmas poem. It was nice to see so many parents join us.
• All – In PE this week we had to do some practicing for our Christmas dances. Some of us enjoyed this, others not so much!
• Charley – We were doing Christmas maths activities where we had to work out the answer to jokes. We did imaginative writing this week relating to a clip called Lily and the Snowman.
• Eve – In French we were doing Christmas colouring in.
• Keris – We are all excited for the holidays and looking forward to spending time with our families and friends.

Here’s a picture of us all ready for our party yesterday.

Have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all and I look forward to seeing you all back in the New Year!

Mrs Rankin & P6/5

Here is a selection of pictures from our party this afternoon! There was great dancing, games, karaoke and creating fantastic memories with friends.

P6/5 scrubbed up well for our party this afternoon! A great time was had by all!